Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne Pay The Taxman

04/15/2011.

(hennemusic) Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne paid off their $1.7 million US tax debts, a week after learning about their financial troubles from the news media. Reuters reports Sharon said on Thursday the federal tax bill had been paid, and she was now on a mission to find out why the Internal Revenue Service filed a lien on one of the British couple's Los Angeles-area residences.

"At 4 PM on Friday afternoon I received a phone call from my publicist, who had a reporter on the other line informing her that the IRS had just put a lien on one of our properties," Osbourne said in a statement released to gossip writer Perez Hilton. She linked to it from her Twitter feed.

"I then contacted my accountant who said they knew nothing about any lien. The lien has been paid. I do intend to find out how this lien happened without the knowledge of myself or my accountants. I hope none of this reflects negatively on mine and Ozzy's moral character." more on this story